Spring Festival candy
Inch gold candy
An inch square golden round stick looks like a small gold bar, and the name "Inch gold" is appropriate and full of warning meaning that "Inch gold can't buy inch time". The inner layer is the stuffing of salted osmanthus mixed with crushed orange cake, the middle layer is the sugar skin, and the outer layer is wrapped with sesame seeds. It tastes sweet and crisp, does not stick to teeth, and has the fragrance of sesame, osmanthus and orange cake. It is one of the most popular snacks in Huizhou rural New Year Festival.
crisp candy
crisp candy has been a traditional famous product since the Southern Song Dynasty. It is made of fried sesame powder and sugar, wrapped in a Zhang Xiaohong paper into a rectangle, and printed with the store's signboard on the little red paper, which is sweet and soft. The high-quality products in crisp candy are called "Top Crisp". Dingshi Crisp is made of shelled white sesame and white sugar, with a small amount of flour or rice flour and maltose. The finished product is yellow in white, grabbed into pieces, lifted into strips, sweet and crisp in mouth, full of fragrance, non-stick to teeth and paper, suitable for all ages. According to Huizhou custom, during the Chinese New Year, every family treats guests with little red paper wrapped in sugar in a fruit box. When visiting relatives, they must send crisp candy. Huizhou folk proverb says, "Don't come into the hall without crisp candy in the New Year".
Hui ink crisp
Hui ink crisp is the standard size of general Hui ink Mo Ding: a cuboid with a length of 6 cm, a width of 4 cm and a thickness of 1 cm. The crisp body is black, shiny and fragrant from the outside to the inside. Excellent taste when tasting: crispy and flexible, it melts from the body fluid and slides in without chewing; The lips and teeth are fragrant, and the fragrance is full of the quiet fragrance of nature; Sweet but not greasy, it has the aesthetic feeling of "adding one point is boring and subtracting one point is boring". Or make breakfast meals, or make tea, or give gifts to friends, or make food supplements for fitness. Hui Mo Crisp often reminds people of Huizhou's trip and smells Shan Ye's fragrance.
Weighing sugar
The name of Huizhou pastry was first produced in Huizhou. This is a distinctive caramel product, which is shaped like a large scale tube cut off one by one, so it is called "weighing sugar". Weighing sugar is wrapped in white sesame or black sesame with caramel, and there is a white sugar center inside, which is made of white sugar mixed with sesame powder and rice flour. If it is kneaded more finely * * * such as a pen container * * *, it will become a "yipin fragrance". Its characteristics are crisp, non-sticky, sweet and palatable, and suitable for all ages.
Fuling Rose Crisp
Fuling Rose Crisp is a long-standing traditional pastry, which is produced in Fuling Village, Jixi County. It is named because it contains roses as accessories and has a rose fragrance. Fine sugar, sesame, flour, caramel, etc. are used as main materials, supplemented by roses, green plums, orange cakes and red and green silk. Sesame is shelled by hand, fried, ground, sieved, mixed with fine white sugar and dried into hemp chips, layered and stacked with a small amount of maltose and fine flour mixed with hemp chips, cut into pieces according to certain specifications, and then evenly sprinkled with fine white sugar, roses, finely chopped green plums, orange cakes, red and green silk, etc. Cut the cut rose crisp into four pieces according to the proportion, and then pack it, with 1 small bags in each box. The appearance of the rose cake is white as jade, and a little bit of roses, orange cakes and plums are looming, just like jadeite agate embedded in white jade. This product was first produced in the Qing Dynasty and lasted for a long time.
traditional candy in the north
sesame candy
sesame candy is a kind of cube candy that sticks fried rice, peanuts and dates together with syrup, and uses it to "paste" the mouth of the kitchen god so that he can put in a good word in front of the Jade Emperor. There is a saying in the northwest of Shanxi that "if you eat sesame candy for twenty-three, you can't eat sesame candy and chew your fingers".
sesame candy is famous for its unique flavor of fragrance, sweetness and crispness, with the characteristics of fragrance but not gaudy, sweetness but not greasy and endless aftertaste. Rich in nutrition, containing protein, glucose and vitamins, it has the effects of warming the lungs, nourishing the stomach, nourishing the liver and tonifying the kidney. It was once a tribute of the Qing Dynasty and a dessert that prevailed for a hundred years.
kwantung sugar
kwantung sugar is also called kitchen king sugar and big candy. In a year, it is only sold around the off-year period. Guandong sugar is a sugar product made of malt and millet, which is used for offering sacrifices to the kitchen gods. It is recorded in "The Chronicle of Yanjing Years" written by the Qing Dynasty that there are "Guandong Sugar" and "Sugar Cake" in the offerings of the Qing Dynasty.
the authentic kwantung sugar is extremely hard and unbreakable. It must be split with a kitchen knife when eating, and the material is very heavy and fine. The taste is slightly sour, there is no gap in the middle, and each piece weighs one or two, two or four, and the price is relatively expensive.
candied melons
There is a folk song "Candied melons offer sacrifices to stoves" in Beijing. The first food to enter the festival is candied melons for offering sacrifices to stoves. Candied melon is round and fat in appearance, made of maltose, slightly sour in sweetness. It is a good snack, but it is rare now.
put it outside in winter, because the weather is very cold, the candied melon is solid and there are some tiny bubbles inside, so it tastes crisp, sweet, crispy and sticky, and has a special flavor.
popcorn candy
there is a saying among the people in Jing' an county that "in a small year, the popcorn is sweet". On the "off-year" day, people make popcorn candy with maltose and popcorn, which means that the new year will be rich and sweet.
Popcorn candy is big, which not only satisfies hunger, but also smacks when chewed. The more direct reason for the popularity of popcorn candy is its taste: it is a popular food for men, women and children in Xian Yi, which combines the crispness of popcorn with the sweetness and softness of brown sugar and caramel.
sugar eaten in the south
popcorn
popcorn is sweet and delicious, with the fragrance of popcorn. Among them, Chongqing Jiangjin popcorn and Sichuan Leshan Suji popcorn are the most famous. Rice candy is mainly made of glutinous rice and white sugar. First, you have to go through the rice milling process, that is, steam the glutinous rice, dry it to make it still be the original grain, then mix 2 grams of maltose into water for every 5 kilograms of glutinous rice, bake it in a pot, and then fry it with sand when the water is dry. At this time, one grain of rice can be as big as four grains of rice. It has the same effect to fry it with lard or vegetables. In order to save oil, it is generally used to fry it with sand, and then use saccharin.
Cunzao: Made of vegetable oil, flour, glutinous rice flour and white sugar, it has four characteristics: fragrant, crisp, crisp and sweet. Small inch dates, wrapped in a layer of sugar coating, look like small "gold bars", fragrant and crisp, and bite "click".
Flower candy: It looks like a pink and white candy, but it is actually fried peanuts.
Fried knock: It looks like a gold ingot, and it is filled with sesame seeds and peanuts.
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